Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Music Teaching for Teachers of the Berklee School of Music

Discover innovative strategies for teaching popular music. Upgrade your classroom teaching methods and enhance your students’ learning experience with rich and diverse content.

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קורס אונליין - התמחות מקצועית מוסמכת בהוראת מוזיקה למורים של בית הספר למוזיקה ברקלי

Professional Certificate

Intermediate level

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Improving work on creativity
  • Improving musical skills
  • Learning about songwriting
  • Music production

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Music teacher
  • Popular Music Guide
  • Jazz improvisation teacher
  • Music processor
  • Music producer
  • Private music teacher
  • Music curriculum developer
  • Music workshop facilitator

Internship – Series of 4 courses

Music education for teachers

  • You will explore ways to incorporate popular music into your teaching.
  • Experienced teachers:
    • Crystal Benavid – Vice President of Continuing Education at Berklee College of Music.
    • David Alexis – Professor at Berklee and longtime instructor in Berklee’s Urban Music Program.
  • Instruction in the process of integrating popular music, improvisation, arrangement, and music technology in the classroom.
  • Meeting basic academic standards.
  • An in-depth exploration of topics for building a popular music curriculum.

Courses

  • Jazz improvisation
    • Hosted by Grammy Award-winning Gary Burton.
    • Learning to use improvisation as a language and story.
    • Introduction to a variety of chord scales, situations, and improvisation techniques.
  • Adaptation for scribes
    • Hosted by Bonnie Hayes and Sara Brindle.
    • Learning to create arrangements for songs.
  • The art of music production
    • Directed by producer Steven Webber.
    • Learning how to start recording music in a meaningful and accessible way.

Hands-on Learning Project

  • Developing a toolkit for studying popular music, improvisation, arrangement, and music technology.
  • Creating projects in any of the areas of popular music:
    • Jazz improvisation.
    • Song arrangement.
    • Music production.

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Teaching popular music in the classroom

Course 1 • 7 hours • 4.7 (96 ratings)

Course Details
What you’ll learn
  • Use techniques to teach improvisation in blues and jazz music
  • Access approaches to instilling the basic principles of songwriting
  • Engage with social and cultural contexts in all aspects of teaching
  • Explore different uses of technologies for music creation
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Teaching
  • Category: Curriculum design
  • Category: Learning
  • Category: Classroom Management

Jazz improvisation

Course 2 • 13 hours • 4.8 (784 ratings)

Course Details
What you’ll learn
  • Use storytelling as a tool to improve your improvisation
  • Practice and adopt different scales to improve your improvisation skills
  • Identify harmonic movement in a poem
  • Use guiding tones and guiding tone lines when improvising
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Musical performance
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Jazz
  • Category: Jazz improvisation

Arrangement for songwriters

Course 3 • 8 hours • 4.4 (76 ratings)

Course Details
What you’ll learn
  • You’ve created a song. You’ve written the lyrics, decided on the melody, and maybe even recorded a simple demo. Now what? If you have a basic knowledge of using a digital audio workstation (DAW) and are passionate about becoming a songwriter, this course will help you take your song from a simple phone recording to a polished, studio-ready song.
  • You’ll learn from two professors of songwriting at the Berklee College of Music, Bonnie Hayes and Sarah Brandel. They’ll show you how to process original songs on a digital workstation. You’ll learn tools to heighten your listeners’ emotional response and expand your understanding of instruments and how to add sounds to a song without distracting the listener from the most important aspect: the conductor’s voice.
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Processing
  • Category: Songwriting
  • Category: Writing

The art of music production

Course 4 • 13 hours • 4.8 (2,022 ratings)

Course Details
What you’ll learn
  • Discuss why one musical recording is more engaging than another and identify the unique aspects of the recording that contribute to this.
  • Begin to assess and establish your identity, vision, and direction as an artist and producer
  • Write and develop a fascinating musical work using various instruments
  • Establish your production’s sonic signature using specific production techniques
Skills you will acquire
  • Category: Music
  • Category: Songwriting
  • Category: Music Production
  • Category: Sound Production
  • Category: Music Recording

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